Stories of the Woods: Or, Adventures of Leather-stocking, Selected from the "Leather-stocking Tales"J. G. Gregory, 1863 - 345 páginas |
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ag'in Arrowhead bark bird block-house boat body bullet bushes canoe captive Chingachgook companion concealed cover cried danger dark death deer Deerslayer Delaware distance door Eau-douce Elizabeth enemy escape exclaimed eyes face father fear feeling feet fire forest girl glance hand Hawkeye head heard Hist hunter Huron Indian instant Iroquois island Jasper June Killdeer knew lake land laugh Leather-Stocking leaves light logs look Mabel manner Mingo minutes Miss Temple Mohegan Mohican mountain Natty Natty Bumppo Oswego paddle pale-face panther party passed Pathfinder reached red-skin returned rifle rift Rivenoak river rock Sarpent savages scalp Scud seemed seen Sergeant sergeant's daughter shoot shore shot side sight slayer smoke soon sound spot stood stream Sumach thing thought tion tomahawk trees tribe turned Tuscarora venison voice warrior woman woods yards young youth
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Página 313 - It was rather the yielding of nature than a compliance with this unexpected order, that caused the head of our heroine to sink on her bosom ; when she heard the report of the rifle, the whizzing of the bullet, and the enraged cries of the beast, who was rolling over on the earth, biting its own flesh, and tearing the twigs and branches within its reach. At the next instant the form of the Leatherstocking rushed by her. and he called aloud, — " Come in, Hector, come in, old fool; 'tis a hard-lived...
Página 311 - So rapid and vigorous were the bounds of the inhabitant of the forest, that its active frame seemed constantly in the air, while the dog nobly faced his foe at each successive leap. When the panther lighted on the shoulders of the mastiff, which was its constant aim, old Brave, though torn with her talons...
Página 25 - If I was Injin born, now, I might tell of this, or carry in the scalp and boast of the expl'ite afore the whole tribe; or if my inimy had only been a bear"— [and so on].
Página 307 - The conversation, as if by mutual consent, was entirely changed to the little incidents and scenes of their walk, and every tall pine, and every shrub or flower, called forth some simple expression of admiration.
Página 23 - So saying, Deerslayer raised the Indian in his arms, and carried him to the lake. Here he first helped him to take an attitude in which he could appease his burning thirst; after which he seated himself on a stone, and took the head of his wounded adversary in his own lap, and endeavored to soothe his anguish in the best manner he could. "It would be sinful in me to tell you your time hadn't come, warrior," he commenced, "and therefore I'll not say it.
Página 22 - you've nothing more to fear from me. I am of a Christian stock, and scalping is not of my gifts. I'll just make sartain of your rifle, and then come back and do you what sarvice I can. Though here I can't stay much longer, as the crack of three rifles will be apt to bring some of your devils down upon me.
Página 13 - Notwithstanding all these circumstances, the most experienced veteran in forest warfare could not have behaved better. Equally free from recklessness and hesitation, his advance was marked by a sort of philosophical prudence, that appeared to render him superior to all motives but those which were best calculated to effect his purpose. Such was the commencement of a career in forest exploits, that afterwards rendered this man, in his way, and under the limits of his habits and opportunities, as renowned...
Página 311 - ... saw the form of the old panther in the air, springing twenty feet from the branch of the beech to the back of the mastiff. No words of ours can describe the fury of the conflict that followed. It was a confused struggle on the dried leaves, accompanied by loud and terrific cries.
Página 24 - Deerslayer arose as soon as he had spoken. Then he placed the body of the dead man, in a sitting posture, with its back against the little rock, taking the necessary care to prevent it from falling, or in any way settling into an attitude that might be thought unseemly by the sensitive, though wild, notions of a savage. When this duty was performed, the young man stood gazing at the grim countenance of his fallen foe, in a sort of melancholy abstraction.
Página 100 - ... him to the level of a complaining sufferer. With this view, the pile of brush and branches had been placed at a proper distance, or one at which it was thought the heat would soon become intolerable, though it might not be immediately dangerous. As often happened, however, on these occasions, this distance had been miscalculated, and the flames began to wave their forked tongues in a proximity to the face of the victim that would have proved fatal in another instant, had not Hetty rushed through...